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                    [Title] => 400 OFWs lose jobs in Taiwan
                    [Summary] => 

Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) are now feeling the impact of the global economic crisis.

[DatePublished] => 2008-11-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097338 [AuthorName] => Mayen Jaymalin [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 407704 [Title] => Global economic crisis to leave more Filipinos unemployed [Summary] => The slowdown in the world economy may leave more Filipinos out of work because the country may not be able to meet its ... [DatePublished] => 2008-10-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1480108 [AuthorName] => Ma. Elisa Osorio  [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 392887 [Title] => Favila to review safeguard tariff lifting on soaps [Summary] => Trade and Industry Secretary Peter B. Favila agreed yesterday to review the lifting of safeguard duty on imported tripolyphosphates-technical grade (STPP-TG), a key ingredient in laundry detergent.

Favila has issued an order dismissing the application for a definitive general safeguard measures against imported STPP-TG as the earlier imposed tariff expired last month.
[DatePublished] => 2007-04-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1480108 [AuthorName] => Ma. Elisa Osorio  [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 328690 [Title] => Gov’t data hides ‘deterioration in quality of workforce’ [Summary] => Employment data released by the government recently showed an impressive 750,000 jobs created last year but on closer inspection the numbers hide a serious deterioration in the quality of the country’s workforce, analysts said.

"What the numbers clearly show is that employment in the formal sector is shrinking and employment in the informal sector of the labor market is growing," Rene Ofreneo director of the school of labor and industrial relations at the University of the Philippines told AFP.
[DatePublished] => 2006-03-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 312958 [Title] => No fair trade for women [Summary] => The protest actions by Filipino domestic helpers and their counterparts from other countries against the World Trade Organization during the 6th WTO ministerial conference in Hong Kong have highlighted people’s dissatisfaction with actions that have benefited only a few, and put a good many at a disadvantage.
[DatePublished] => 2005-12-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134209 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804859 [AuthorName] => Domini M. Torrevillas [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 208776 [Title] => Government to gain P200M under value-based excise tax [Summary] => The government may lose P1.34 billion in revenues from passenger cars under the value-based excise tax system, simulations by the Department of Finance (DOF) showed recently.

However, to make up for the revenue loss from passenger cars, the DOF projects a tax take of P1.54 billion from the six-to nine- percent tax to be imposed on the currently tax-exempt Asian utility vehicles (AUVs), resulting in a net revenue of about P200 million.
[DatePublished] => 2003-06-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097285 [AuthorName] => Marianne V. Go [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 204057 [Title] => Car exec warns of rise in CBU imports if value-based excise tax is implemented [Summary] => Imposition of a value-based excise tax system will only drive local automotive manufacturers to resort to importation of completely build-up (CBU) units instead of manufacturing vehicles locally.

This possibility emerged during a recent tripartite discussion among the academe, government and automotive manufacturers on the proposed excise tax shift.
[DatePublished] => 2003-04-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097285 [AuthorName] => Marianne V. Go [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 95465 [Title] => Motivation seen as key to competitiveness [Summary] => Making workers multi-skilled, versatile and highly motivated is the key to enterprise competitiveness, according to Dr. Rene E. Ofreneo, professor at the University of the Philippines-School of Labor and Industrial Relations (UP-SOLAIR).

Ofreneo said competition can be overcome through increased investments on the skills of the workers and in the creation of work conditions that unleash their enthusiasm, creativity and productivity.
[DatePublished] => 2001-06-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 97156 [Title] => Motivation seen as key to competitiveness [Summary] => Making workers multi-skilled, versatile and highly motivated is the key to enterprise competitiveness, according to Dr. Rene E. Ofreneo, professor at the University of the Philippines-School of Labor and Industrial Relations (UP-SOLAIR).

Ofreneo said competition can be overcome through increased investments on the skills of the workers and in the creation of work conditions that unleash their enthusiasm, creativity and productivity.
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